SECURING THE FUTURE OF OPEN-ACCESS POLICIES Rob Johnson Director, Research Consulting
@rschconsulting
STARTING ASSUMPTION….
=
+ Open access services
Cultural/ behavioural change
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE Knowledge Exchange are: German Research Foundation Jisc (United Kingdom) Denmark’s Electronic Research Library SURF (Netherlands) CSC – IT Centre for Science (Finland)
Five key national agencies and bodies within Europe responsible for the development of infrastructure and services to support the use ICT within education and research.
DEFINING THE PROBLEM
“If I had 55 minutes to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution” Albert Einstein Image source: Wikimedia Commons
DEFINING THE PROBLEM 1. On what services do OA policies depend? 2. What are the risks to policy implementation?
STARTING ASSUMPTION….
Compliance
3 Policy components
+
OA Archiving
6 Service categories OA
Publishing 12 Policy elements
18 Service subcategories
STARTING ASSUMPTION….
+ 3 Policy components
12 Policy elements
6 Service categories
18 Service subcategories
STARTING ASSUMPTION….
3. Support / dissemination
4. Repository services 5. OA publishing
2. Abstracting/ Indexing
1. Underpinning
6 Service categories 6. Monitoring
HOW DO POLICIES RELATE TO SERVICES? (1) 3 Policy components
12 Policy elements
6 Service categories
18 Service subcategories
HOW DO POLICIES RELATE TO SERVICES? (2)
• Interdependent • Organic • Transnational
WHICH SERVICES MATTER MOST?
11
SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
1.Governance
Services
2.Sustainability 3.Fragmentation 4.Incoherence
Infrastructure
A 5-MINUTE SOLUTION
1.Do nothing? 2.Support only the most important services? 3.Body or architecture to oversee OA services?
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” Albert Einstein
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